Researcher interests: Functional ecology of food-web dynamics, especially ecological and evolutionary aspects of predator-prey interactions, stress ecology, inducible defenses, above-below ground interactions, ecological-traps, nutritional ecology, individual syndrome, ecology and evolution of conspicuous anti-predator colors and patterns, herpetology and especially lizard ecology, desert ecology, ecosystem conservation and restoration.
FACULTY / SCHOOL: Faculty of Science
Selected Publications
odors of non predatory species help prey moderate their risk assessment (2019)|
Functional Ecology|
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observation resolution critically influences movement based foraging indices (2019)|
Scientific Reports|
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burrowing detritivores regulate nutrient cycling in a desert ecosystem (2019)|
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences|
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bearding the scorpion in his den desert isopods take risks to validate their landscape of fear assessment (2019)|
Oikos|
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consequences of prey exoskeleton content for predator feeding and digestion black widow predation on larval versus adult mealworm beetles (2019)|
Oecologia|
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ecological stoichiometry a link between developmental speed and physiological stress in an omnivorous insect (2019)|
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience|
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predators buffer the effects of variation in prey nutrient content for nutrient deposition (2019)|
Oikos|
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predicting predator nutrient intake from prey body contents (2019)|
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution|
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the observation resolution a neglected aspect with critical influence on movement based foraging indices (2018)|
arXiv: Quantitative Methods|
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considerations used by desert isopods to assess scorpion predation risk (2018)|
The American Naturalist|
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